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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Would you say that industries with heavy network effects tend towards monopolies, while those without tend to produce more competition?

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Not really. Just label it as "Vintage Honey", write "Experience the taste of honey taken from Egyptian tombs" and add in very tiny letters at the bottom "From 2016 harvest". As long as you don't claim it's actually taken from an Egyptian tomb, you can just spin it however you like. If you want to be somewhat more honest, make sure the bees only drink nectar from flowers that would have been grown during the time of the pharaohs.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Repeat after me: companies are not people. Everything is a cost-benefit analysis. Do we poison the river and give an entire town of couple of thousand people premature cancer or do we put the waste in barrels and bury them in a safe manner? If the fine is less than the cost of the barrels, they'll dump it in the river.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

It isn't really a disorder, it's just a kind of personality. It's pretty much par for the course of simply being human. A good shrink should be able to get him to function with people who don't see things as the does, but there isn't anything wrong with him per se.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I like how moon_of_moon's comment got flagged the second he posted it, real good work silencing discussion like that, guys.

Relatedly, it's a bit sad what's happening to him. A few decades ago, he would have just been "that guy who makes the racy jokes" at an all-male shop, but over time our laissez-faire anything-goes culture has been taken over and thrust into a rather more corporate world, filled with people for whom our words that used to be simply racy are now akin to being stabbed through the heart. Such is the price of progress, I guess. I would suggest the companies mandating that people like him receive councelling, so they can function in today's diverse environments, but it feels really creepy for the company itself to be sending you to a mental health professional.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

At this point it's fair to say that anyone waiting on F-35 would have been better served by just ordering more Warthogs.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

FUCK the record companies. If I were in a room with Cary Sherman, Hitler and Stalin and had a gun with one bullet, I'd throw the gun away and kill Sherman with my bare hands so it would take longer.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Resisting copyright is not deplorable ethics, quite the opposite in fact - copyright itself is deplorable ethics and anything done to kill it is just and honourable.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

And get fucked by credit card fees. AFAIK credit cards cost something like a few hundred dollars per year in just maintenance fees, so requiring one just to be a real person is a really shitty racket.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I guess e-bay and amazon are good in aggregate, i.e. there are only a few scammers, so if you sell thousands of units you don't really care, but the risk is just not worth it for the individual seller.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Problems that solve themselves, really.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Hah, I have it easy by that measure. I don't have space in my home to fit a TV in to hook a PS4 (or XBone) to! I did upgrade my 4-year-old desktop, though. I should probably scratch the case some more and put a few stickers on it so it doesn't look out of place in my apartment.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

QW had to send a lot less data. All the physical simulation ran on the server, so each client would send their inputs and the server would send back the world state. Current games' world state is a lot bigger than before with dynamic physical objects and skinned meshes with thousands of polygons, whose movement is dictated by a blend of physics, inverse kinematics and skeletal animation. Computer power has scaled farther than bandwidth and latency.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

"Deserve" is a bit strong, but you will be breaking the law in a rather serious way.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

That's some nice useless use of cat you have there ;) . You can just do

    cc -fPIC -o $sofile -shared -x c - <<'EOF'
    ...
    EOF

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

They are, in a way, the most benevolent of dictators.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Good for the consumer, not good according to a metric of enforcing digital ownership by the license holder. The latter might, or might not be, good for the bottom line.

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

    while read line; do
        echo $line>>$cfile
    done

Okay, I know this is a joke and all, but that's the exact wrong way to do it. What you want to do is just

    cat > $cfile

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Can't you just install JACK on Android and be done with it?

tehrei

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah, this is typical male group dynamics. Same would happen if I were to suggest Friends instead of baseball.

I wonder though, how do groups of women solve that?

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